I want to share the things I try from Pinterest that work, so I shall begin another series here on CC: Pinterest Projects. Sometimes I’ll devote an entire post to them, other times I’ll just mention them within a post. I think it’s important to do more than just pin things- you must try them, too!
I was immediately intrigued by this pin. The thought of making a boat-load of my own detergent and then not having to buy it for a long time…. awesome. So I did it. I made my own laundry detergent. Here’s the original post in case you’d like to make your own.
I put mine in a giant glass cookie jar from IKEA. I love it. It’s so nice to have this instead of a big ol’ plastic bottle of detergent. Does it work? Yup. Does it smell good? It does. It doesn’t necessarily make your clothes smell amazing, so if you need spring-fresh clothes you’ll want to add a fabric softener or something along those lines, but our clothes are clean.
Other tips I would add:
Order everything you need from Amazon. It’s so much easier than driving all over kingdom-come for the ingredients, as they are not necessarily all in the same place. What I really love is that everything the ingredients come in, for the most part, is recyclable. RAD!
Mix it up outside, and wear a mask. There will be soap dust everywhere, but it will smell amazing. Love it!
If you grate the soap by hand, it’s quite a nice workout for your arms. 🙂
I’m pondering trying the dishwasher detergent next. Woo hoo!
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ooh i may have to try this. haven’t been able to find laundry detergent that we like as much as the one we used when in japan (and the japanese market here stopped carrying it a couple of years ago). rad indeed! (rad is such a good word by the way… i’m glad you’re trying to bring it back although i don’t think it ever fell into disuse here in socal – hello surfer country!) thanks for sharing your rad ideas! =)
I have been trying to use up my current detergent as fast as I can so I can try this. So you think it’s worth it? I do like to have the fresh smell so I may have to continue to buy the fabric softener.
I totally think it’s worth it! It’s awesome for me on so many levels. I love knowing what’s in my detergent, I love the glass jar instead of plastic stuff. I may even get another jar for fabric softener, which we can’t use on everything but I do use on some stuff. And just knowing that I don’t have to buy whatever’s on sale once every 2 months or so…. so nice! Be sure you do it outside, though- soooo much dust/powder.